Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 02 May 2025 20:14:05 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

I remember trying to put a letter in uppercase in the name of an
existing file. I had to rename the file differently to be able rename it
back with the uppercase letter. That was very poorly handled by Windows.
Don't know how it is now.

    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> touch try.dat
    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> ls -l
    total 0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 May  3 11:57 try.dat
    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> mv try.dat TRY.DAT
    mv: 'try.dat' and 'TRY.DAT' are the same file

I guess Linux isn’t any better ...